Re: [newbie] Disk Space Left?

2004-09-04 Thread Johan Sch
On Sat, 4 Sep 2004 08:34:45 -0700 "Steve" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm using Mandrake 10.0 with KDE. Where Can I find how much disk space I have left? > > Thank you, > Steve *** Try.. df -h. All mounted partitions will be shown with usage and what is left. --

Re: [newbie] Disk Space Left?

2004-09-04 Thread Ian
On Saturday 04 Sep 2004 16:34, Steve wrote: > Hi, > > I'm using Mandrake 10.0 with KDE. Where Can I find how much disk space I > have left? System/Configuration/KDE/Information/Sorage Devices works here :-) I'm sure there will be a quicker way...if its just your Home dir.right click and se

Re: [newbie] Disk Space Left?

2004-09-04 Thread Kaj Haulrich
On Saturday 04 September 2004 17:34, Steve wrote: > Hi, > > I'm using Mandrake 10.0 with KDE. Where Can I find how much disk > space I have left? > > Thank you, > Steve In a terminal : df Kaj Haulrich. -- *sent from a 100% Microsoft-free workstation* * http://haulrich.net * *Running Lin

[newbie] Disk Space Left?

2004-09-04 Thread Steve
Hi,   I'm using Mandrake 10.0 with KDE. Where Can I find how much disk space I have left?   Thank you, Steve

[newbie] disk format

2003-06-11 Thread David Hlacik
how can i format my hdd from ntfs to ext3 fs from linux console? David Hlacik Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[newbie] Disk Quotas

2003-06-06 Thread Cody Harris
HOw do i enable quotas for a folder? -Cody Harris ++ | Linux Rox My Sox!  | | Check out HCHS!    | | http://vectec.net | ++--+ | Proud to use Mandrake Linux 8.1 as a server.  | | Not proud to use Windows as a primary

Re[4]: [newbie] Disk problem

2003-03-01 Thread Robert Golovniov
On Friday, February 28, 2003, 2:16:50 PM, Robert Golovniov wrote: RG> Tried to put it as the second harddrive on another machine running RG> Mandrake 9.1b3. Did not work either. Seems to be solved... Everything was quite simple: Parity_Boot virus messed everything up. Had to wipe the whole disk..

Re[3]: [newbie] Disk problem

2003-02-28 Thread Robert Golovniov
On Friday, February 28, 2003, 8:04:50 AM, Robert Golovniov wrote: RG> The BIOS gives this information about the disk: Fujitsu MPG3204AT E. RG> As for the other OS, I have W2K on the first 2,5Gb partition, which RG> boot just fine. Tried to put it as the second harddrive on another machine running

Re[2]: [newbie] Disk problem

2003-02-27 Thread Robert Golovniov
On Thursday, February 27, 2003, 11:10:46 PM, civileme wrote: c> Sounds like you are using 7.2 or earlier on a Western Digital Disk. Not exactly. I am running 8.2 on Fujitsu. c> If you are having the problem on a modern kernel and disk drive, we need a lot c> more information about the drive, the

Re: [newbie] Disk problem

2003-02-27 Thread civileme
On Thursday 27 February 2003 08:14 am, Robert Golovniov wrote: > Hello Mandrake group, > > I have a problem with my harddrive. First of all, I cannot now boot > into Linux. I get an error message that kernel tries to kill init > (or something similar). When I try to reinstall the system, Mand

[newbie] Disk problem

2003-02-27 Thread Robert Golovniov
Hello Mandrake group, I have a problem with my harddrive. First of all, I cannot now boot into Linux. I get an error message that kernel tries to kill init (or something similar). When I try to reinstall the system, Mandrake warns me of a wrong disk geometry (240 physical heads?) So, at th

Re: [newbie] Disk Full notification?

2002-10-31 Thread Barry Michels
It's running. After looking at this issue again, I realized that I had no notification at all under Debian, where there is no partmon. However, under Mandrake, I get messages saying that the drive is full, but cp keeps going, leaving 0 length files. Not much better. It would be nice if partmo

Re: [newbie] Disk Full notification?

2002-10-31 Thread Roman Korcek
Hey Barry, > When copying files from one drive to another at the console, I don't get a > disk full notification. When the drive fills up, it keeps trying to copy > until it reaches the end, then it returns to the prompt. No note saying > anything went wrong. Then I have no idea which file it

[newbie] Disk Full notification?

2002-10-29 Thread Barry Michels
When copying files from one drive to another at the console, I don't get a disk full notification. When the drive fills up, it keeps trying to copy until it reaches the end, then it returns to the prompt. No note saying anything went wrong. Then I have no idea which file it was working on when

[newbie] disk quota?

2002-09-17 Thread Norman Zhang
Hi, I enable Use Quotas on /home in webmin/system/Disk and Network Filesystems to Users and Group. But webmin/system/Disk Quota still cannot be enable or started? Would someone please give me some help? Thanks, Norman Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.man

Re: [newbie] disk space advice

2002-06-05 Thread Michael Adams
On Wed, 05 Jun 2002 22:47, Azrael wrote: > Michael Adams wrote: > >On Wed, 05 Jun 2002 08:33, Azrael wrote: > >>two very good answers.. and I have gone with both of them :) > >> > >>many thanks!! > > > >Azrael, I would have a look in the syslog and see what the offender was/is > >(it is just a tex

Re: DVD with XINE was .. Re: [newbie] disk space advice

2002-06-05 Thread Azrael
John Richard Smith wrote: >On Wednesday 05 June 2002 15:19, you wrote: > > >> John Richard Smith wrote: >> >> >>>On Wednesday 05 June 2002 14:53, you wrote: >>> >>> That'll teach me to not watch what I'm doing.. Azrael wrote: >I have the following p

Re: DVD with XINE was .. Re: [newbie] disk space advice

2002-06-05 Thread John Richard Smith
On Wednesday 05 June 2002 15:19, you wrote: > John Richard Smith wrote: > >On Wednesday 05 June 2002 14:53, you wrote: > >>That'll teach me to not watch what I'm doing.. > >> > >>Azrael wrote: > >>>I have the following packages installed, and yet xine doesn't > >>>play encrypted dvds. What am I

Re: DVD with XINE was .. Re: [newbie] disk space advice

2002-06-05 Thread John Richard Smith
On Wednesday 05 June 2002 14:53, you wrote: > That'll teach me to not watch what I'm doing.. > > Azrael wrote: > > I have the following packages installed, and yet xine doesn't > > play encrypted dvds. What am I doing wrong? (I assume it's always > > my fault - and am hardly ever wrong there). > >

DVD with XINE was .. Re: [newbie] disk space advice

2002-06-05 Thread Azrael
That'll teach me to not watch what I'm doing.. Azrael wrote: > I have the following packages installed, and yet xine doesn't play > encrypted dvds. What am I doing wrong? (I assume it's always my fault > - and am hardly ever wrong there). > > package libcss-0.1.0-5 is already installed > packa

Re: [newbie] disk space advice

2002-06-05 Thread Azrael
I have the following packages installed, and yet xine doesn't play encrypted dvds. What am I doing wrong? (I assume it's always my fault - and am hardly ever wrong there). package libcss-0.1.0-5 is already installed package libdvdcss2-1.2.0-2plf is already installed package libdvdcss2-devel-1.2

Re: [newbie] disk space advice

2002-06-05 Thread Azrael
Michael Adams wrote: >On Wed, 05 Jun 2002 08:33, Azrael wrote: > > >>two very good answers.. and I have gone with both of them :) >> >>many thanks!! >> >> > >Azrael, I would have a look in the syslog and see what the offender was/is >(it is just a text file). Something must be putting out

RE: [newbie] disk space advice

2002-06-05 Thread Franki
PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of dfox Sent: Wednesday, 5 June 2002 11:22 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] disk space advice > /dev/hdb3 12G 11G 1.5G 88% / > /dev/hdb6 2.0G 868M 1.1G 44% /home > > which seems fine... but nearly every day '

Re: [newbie] disk space advice

2002-06-05 Thread Michael Adams
On Wed, 05 Jun 2002 08:33, Azrael wrote: > two very good answers.. and I have gone with both of them :) > > many thanks!! Azrael, I would have a look in the syslog and see what the offender was/is (it is just a text file). Something must be putting out lots of error messages to cause syslog to

Re: [newbie] disk space advice

2002-06-04 Thread dfox
> /dev/hdb3 12G 11G 1.5G 88% / > /dev/hdb6 2.0G 868M 1.1G 44% /home > > which seems fine... but nearly every day '/' gets up to 100% .. and can > be brought down to 88% by deleting /var/log/syslog .. meaning this log > file gets to about 1.5G in size. Hmm. I we

Re: [newbie] disk space advice

2002-06-04 Thread Azrael
two very good answers.. and I have gone with both of them :) many thanks!! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

RE: [newbie] disk space advice

2002-06-04 Thread Franki
CTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Azrael Sent: Wednesday, 5 June 2002 3:56 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] disk space advice I need to ask for some advice :) df -h gives me: /dev/hdb3 12G 11G 1.5G 88% / /dev/hdb6 2.0G 868M 1.1G 44% /home whi

Re: [newbie] disk space advice

2002-06-04 Thread Gerald Waugh
On Tuesday 04 June 2002 03:55 pm, Azrael wrote: > I need to ask for some advice :) > > df -h gives me: > > /dev/hdb3 12G 11G 1.5G 88% / > /dev/hdb6 2.0G 868M 1.1G 44% /home > > which seems fine... but nearly every day '/' gets up to 100% .. and can > be brought down

[newbie] disk space advice

2002-06-04 Thread Azrael
I need to ask for some advice :) df -h gives me: /dev/hdb3 12G 11G 1.5G 88% / /dev/hdb6 2.0G 868M 1.1G 44% /home which seems fine... but nearly every day '/' gets up to 100% .. and can be brought down to 88% by deleting /var/log/syslog .. meaning this log file

[newbie] disk partition copied using tar and now 50% larger

2002-05-02 Thread Mike Caron
I am using Mandrake Linux 8.0 with two IDE hard drives in my system. I created a partition on the second hard drive and then copied a partition from the first drive over to the second drive and it significantly increased in size. More details: I use "ext2" for my hard drive partitions. I used

Re: [newbie] Disk Partitioning

2002-03-10 Thread FemmeFatale
OK *grins* new headache! I've been considering a new experiment on my TEST OS partition. The one time I did this it failed & I want to know why. Install LM8.0 or begin to. Get to the partition utility. Normally I hit "auto allocate" & it gives me 3 partitions: /root, swap, home. Well...being

[newbie] Disk Concatenaton in Mandrake 8.1?

2002-02-15 Thread Ben
I'm running out of space on my root partition, and was wondering if anyone knows of a way to concatenate a partition with an additional hard drive to get more space. I can scrounge up another hard drive, but don't want to have to move/reinstall/copy/etc. If there's a HOWTO, website, or guru o

Re: [newbie] Disk Problems

2002-02-12 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Mon, 11 Feb 2002 17:06:02 +, Mark Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > I am getting a few apps lock up and the disk wont stop reading. I have > looked at the messages log file and this is what I see. I have tried fsck, > but my problem is still here. Does anybody know what else I

[newbie] Disk Problems

2002-02-12 Thread Mark Evans
Hi I am getting a few apps lock up and the disk wont stop reading. I have looked at the messages log file and this is what I see. I have tried fsck, but my problem is still here. Does anybody know what else I can try? Or is my HD past it! Feb 11 15:08:49 localhost kernel: hda: read_intr: st

Re: [newbie] Disk partitioning problem.

2002-02-12 Thread Gerald Waugh
On Tue, 12 Feb 2002, Seedkum Aladeem wrote: > >%_Hi, > > I checked it right now with the win2k Disk Management tool and it says > FAT32. I know that Harddrake also says FAT32. > Sometimes you have to completely reinitialize a disk, I use IIRC dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hdx where x is the harddri

Re: [newbie] Disk partitioning problem.

2002-02-12 Thread Seedkum Aladeem
you used the right format? > > Greetings, > > Jeroen v.d. Westelaken > EXEcute-IT > > Internet: http://www.execute-it.nl > > -Oorspronkelijk bericht- > Van: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Namens Seedkum Aladeem > Verzonden: dinsdag 12

RE: [newbie] Disk partitioning problem.

2002-02-11 Thread Jeroen v.d. Westelaken
Aladeem Verzonden: dinsdag 12 februari 2002 8:08 Aan: Newbie at MDK Onderwerp: [newbie] Disk partitioning problem. Hi, Harddrake says that a drive is taking the full space of a partition but the visible size is about half the size of the partition. The other half is not visible and I cannot reach

[newbie] Disk partitioning problem.

2002-02-11 Thread Seedkum Aladeem
Hi, Harddrake says that a drive is taking the full space of a partition but the visible size is about half the size of the partition. The other half is not visible and I cannot reach it. The following is a description of what I did and what I observed. Hopefully someone can tell me what is going

Re: [newbie] Disk Space in LM 8.1

2002-02-07 Thread Anuerin G. Diaz
On Thu, 07 Feb 2002 17:51:35 +0900 Charles Muller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> revealed these words to me: > I just got a warning about insufficient disk space in Ximian Desktop, > but I can find any place in the controls to give disk space information. > Where can I find this? > > Chuck > on the com

Re: [newbie] Disk Space in LM 8.1

2002-02-07 Thread Michael Scottaline
On Thu, 07 Feb 2002 17:51:35 +0900 Charles Muller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> scribbled in frustration: >I just got a warning about insufficient disk space in Ximian Desktop, >but I can find any place in the controls to give disk space information. >Where can I find this? > >Chuck Type df in a

[newbie] Disk Managers

2002-01-15 Thread Larry W. Irwin Sr.
Hi everybody, I got my problem with a 1996 bios and Lilo fixed by not using Lilo. Installed Grub instead and it is happy. Thanks to everyone who responded. Larry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] disk

2001-10-22 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Mon, 2001-10-22 at 16:15, Dechao Wang wrote: > Hi, > > in /mnt, I saw that there are cdrom, disk, and floppy, what does disk > mean here? does it mean flip disk can be accessed? > > Dech > > > =_1003742151-1734-2024 > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go t

Re: [newbie] disk

2001-10-22 Thread Miark
Take a look in /etc/fstab. Is /mnt/disk listed there at all? Miark - Original Message - From: "Dechao Wang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "newbie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, October 22, 2001 8:15 AM Subject: [newbie] disk > Hi, > > in /m

Re: [newbie] disk

2001-10-22 Thread Matt Greer
on 10/22/01 9:49 AM, Ralph Slooten at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Also, why in mandrake do users all have a tmp folder in their home > directory? What is the advantage of this, and if none, how can I get rid of > it? One use is when compiling your own programs. gcc will place temporary object fil

Re: [newbie] disk

2001-10-22 Thread Ralph Slooten
Yes, good question. I have no idea either. It's been there I believe since 8.0, and you can delete it, but it just comes straight back with the next boot. It's also part of the filesystem-2.0.7-2md (LM 8.0) package. Could someone explain this please? Also, why in mandrake do users all have a tmp

[newbie] disk

2001-10-22 Thread Dechao Wang
Hi, in /mnt, I saw that there are cdrom, disk, and floppy, what does disk mean here? does it mean flip disk can be accessed? Dech Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] disk scan/ disk defrag

2001-09-15 Thread David E. Fox
> installed LM, is it still safe to run diskmanager and defrag on the hdd? If > it is, will it do the entire drive or only the win partition? Thanks. Well, you've just defragged the Win partition, so there's no need to defrag it again. The Windows defragger doesn't know about Linux, and can't

[newbie] disk scan/ disk defrag

2001-09-15 Thread Admin
Hello: This might be a silly question, but I installed LM8.0 on a disk partition, which it shares with windows 98se. As per instructions, I went ahead and did a disk scan and defrag on the hdd prior to installing linux. Now that I have installed LM, is it still safe to run diskmanager and de

Re: [newbie] disk information

2001-08-16 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Thu, 16 Aug 2001 16:41, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Looking in the "detailed system information" part of the GNOME system > information monitoring software, I see some things under "disk information" > that I don't completely understand. Here's a rundown of all the info: > > 1. Mount point: /

[newbie] disk information

2001-08-15 Thread dic98
Looking in the "detailed system information" part of the GNOME system information monitoring software, I see some things under "disk information" that I don't completely understand. Here's a rundown of all the info: 1. Mount point: / /dev/hdc1 type ext2 3,189 MB, 2,564 free (2,726 superuser) 41

Re: [newbie]disk partitioning

2001-07-22 Thread Paul
It was Sun, 22 Jul 2001 12:54:22 +0200 when George Baker wrote: > * Save my '/home' to my '/mnt/DOS_hda1' so that after I have resized > '/home' I can copy it back to my new /home. (I understand that if > you resize a partition you loose all data?) Correct, resizing usually means destr

[newbie]disk partitioning

2001-07-22 Thread George Baker
I am trying to get my hands on another hard drive. If I can't, can I with my existing setup: * Save my '/home' to my '/mnt/DOS_hda1' so that after I have resized '/home' I can copy it back to my new /home. (I understand that if you resize a partition you loose all data?) * Having

Re: [newbie] Disk full problem

2001-07-19 Thread Michael D. Viron
George, Civilme is right...3 GB is kind of small these days. Anyways, here's a few suggestions: #1. Check to see if there is anything you can remove from /tmp #2. Check to see if you have log files in /var/log that end in .[1-9] or .gz, if you see files that end in either of the above, they

Re: [newbie] Disk full problem

2001-07-18 Thread Michael D. Viron
George, It would help us if you posted the partitions you have and what size they are. Michael -- Michael Viron Registered Linux User #81978 Senior Systems & Administration Consultant Web Spinners, University of West Florida At 12:21 AM 07/19/2001 +0200, George Baker wrote: >I installed LM 7 o

[newbie] Disk full problem

2001-07-18 Thread George Baker
I installed LM 7 on a 1.2 gig extended partition. Now I see that /root partition is nearly full, yet I have 300 MB free in /home. How can I give more space to /root or specifically /usr. Thanks George Baker South Africa

Re: [newbie] Disk Resizers

2001-06-30 Thread civileme
, a program that patches ext2resize for growing ext2 partitions _while_mounted_.Don't know yet how useful it is, but I should in a few hours. Civileme Civileme > > - Original Message - > > From: "Dave Sherman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[E

Re: [newbie] Disk Resizers

2001-06-29 Thread Kevin Fonner
Friday, June 29, 2001 8:17 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Disk Resizers > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Disk Drake is included with Mandrake (at least 7.2, I would assume 8.0 as > well). > > On Friday 29 June 2001 18:47, thus spake Kevin Fonner: > > &g

Re: [newbie] Disk Resizers

2001-06-29 Thread Kevin Fonner
Ahh. I took a look at it ealier and didn't see any resize buttons. Then I pressed unmount. Thanks, Kevin - Original Message - From: "Dave Sherman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, June 29, 2001 8:17 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Disk

Re: [newbie] Disk partitions

2001-06-17 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Sun, 17 Jun 2001 20:08, preston smith wrote: > HI!! > > I joined your list in the past 24 hours. > > I have downloaded the ISO images for MD 8.0 and am about to start > the install. I have Windows 98 on my system and wish to have a dual > boot capability. > > I also have Partition Magic 5.0 >

Re: [newbie] Disk partitions

2001-06-17 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Sunday 17 June 2001 11:08, preston smith wrote: > HI!! > > I joined your list in the past 24 hours. > > I have downloaded the ISO images for MD 8.0 and am about to start the > install. I have Windows 98 on my system and wish to have a dual boot > capability. > > I also have Partition Magic 5.0

[newbie] Disk partitions

2001-06-17 Thread preston smith
HI!! I joined your list in the past 24 hours. I have downloaded the ISO images for MD 8.0 and am about to start the install. I have Windows 98 on my system and wish to have a dual boot capability. I also have Partition Magic 5.0 In reading the MD User document, I am left with the impression

Re: [newbie] Disk errors during boot!!! .. Help

2001-05-15 Thread Michael D. Viron
At 02:46 PM 05/15/2001 -0700, Civileme wrote: >On Tuesday 15 May 2001 03:31, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> I have installed the Opera browser on LM8.0 >> >> During the normal navigation I got a "freeze screen" .. the PC become >> completely unresponsive . I thought that this didn't happen on Linux .

Re: [newbie] Disk errors during boot!!! .. Help

2001-05-15 Thread Civileme
On Tuesday 15 May 2001 03:31, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have installed the Opera browser on LM8.0 > > During the normal navigation I got a "freeze screen" .. the PC become > completely unresponsive . I thought that this didn't happen on Linux . > The fact that an application can bring down an O

Re: [newbie] Disk errors during boot!!! .. Help

2001-05-15 Thread Paul
> > I have installed the Opera browser on LM8.0 > > During the normal navigation I got a "freeze screen" .. the PC become compl> etely unresponsive . > I thought that this didn't happen on Linux . Usually Linux will not be totally dead when something like this happens. It normally is just part

Re: [newbie] Disk errors during boot!!! .. Help

2001-05-15 Thread Paul
> > I have installed the Opera browser on LM8.0 > > During the normal navigation I got a "freeze screen" .. the PC become compl> etely unresponsive . > I thought that this didn't happen on Linux . Usually Linux will not be totally dead when something like this happens. It normally is just part

[newbie] Disk errors during boot!!! .. Help

2001-05-15 Thread lneves
I have installed the Opera browser on LM8.0 During the normal navigation I got a "freeze screen" .. the PC become completely unresponsive . I thought that this didn't happen on Linux . The fact that an application can bring down an OS was the reason that I've switched from Windows .. many peop

Re: [newbie] Disk errors during boot!!! .. Help

2001-05-15 Thread Alejandro Castro Calvo
t can help you next time, and I'm sorry but I can't help you with your current problem (I ussed to reinstall) - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2001 12:31 PM Subject: [newbie] Disk errors during boot!!! .. He

[newbie] Disk errors during boot!!! .. Help

2001-05-15 Thread lneves
I have installed the Opera browser on LM8.0 During the normal navigation I got a "freeze screen" .. the PC become completely unresponsive . I thought that this didn't happen on Linux . The fact that an application can bring down an OS was the reason that I've switched from Windows .. many peop

[newbie] disk quota and ftp welcome message.

2001-04-21 Thread Luc Martineau
Hello all I have disk Quotas for some of my users. I was wondering if there was a way to insert a line in the FTP welcome message that would let the user know how much diskspace they are using and how much is left? (sort of like geocities and similar hosts do) I am running mandrake 7.2 and the def

Re: [newbie] Disk usage

2001-03-16 Thread Mark Weaver
Renaud, You can get the information you're looking for by using this neat little command. du -h --max-depth=1 Example: du -h / --max-depth=1 give it a try...you'll love it! Mark Renaud OLGIATI wrote: > > Hi all, > > I've been trying to find a way to get, for each sub-dire

Re: [newbie] Disk usage

2001-03-12 Thread Renaud OLGIATI
On Sunday 11 March 2001 19:12, Neville Cobb wrote: > The URL for Xdiskusage is http://xdiskusage.sourceforge.net/ > The page contain a binary which can be run by a user if you change the > execute permissions on the file once you download it. Ta, I'll give it a try. Ron. --

Re: [newbie] Disk usage

2001-03-11 Thread Neville Cobb
The URL for Xdiskusage is http://xdiskusage.sourceforge.net/ The page contain a binary which can be run by a user if you change the execute permissions on the file once you download it. Neville Cobb wrote: > > If you are using KDE2 you can obtain that data by right clicking on the > directory a

Re: [newbie] Disk usage

2001-03-11 Thread Neville Cobb
If you are using KDE2 you can obtain that data by right clicking on the directory and choose properties. It will then calculate the space. Another is a program called xdiskusage which graphically presents the data for you in a bar chart that allows you to setp through each major section and conti

Re: [newbie] Disk usage

2001-03-11 Thread Mathias De Belder
On Sun, Mar 11, 2001 at 01:43:46PM -0400, Renaud OLGIATI wrote: > I've been trying to find a way to get, for each sub-directory of a given > directory, the total amount of disk-space used up by that sub-directory and > all its sub-sub-directories. > > Is there a way to do this with du , > > Or

[newbie] Disk usage

2001-03-11 Thread Renaud OLGIATI
Hi all, I've been trying to find a way to get, for each sub-directory of a given directory, the total amount of disk-space used up by that sub-directory and all its sub-sub-directories. Is there a way to do this with du , Or any other way ? I dont need/want the breakdown with all the sub-sub

RE: [newbie] disk problem

2001-02-06 Thread Bryant Morrison F47743C
detect the new partition and linux boot record, then it will automatically update its boot menu. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of David Pilcher Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2001 12:54 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] disk problem

RE: [newbie] disk problem

2001-02-06 Thread David Pilcher
-with-GRUB.html or http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/LILO.html#toc1   Dave -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Igor Andreevich RubinskySent: 06 February 2001 14:42To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [newbie] disk problem i've

[newbie] disk problem

2001-02-06 Thread Igor Andreevich Rubinsky
i've got a disk problem, i have a syscommander delux, then 2000 meg FAT - partition 0, + 8000 meg FAT - partition 1, + 1 meg FAT - free.   when i try to install linux from the only hard drive my syscommander resizes the first 2000 meg FAT to 1500 meg FAT + 470 meg UNIX + 70 meg free. i don

Re: [newbie] disk partitions

2001-02-03 Thread Quaylar
AIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Friday, February 02, 2001 3:24 PM >Subject: [newbie] disk partitions > > > > hi all... > > > > short question regarding disk partitions. > > as my original 500 MB /usr partition was too small i decided to use a 1GB > > scsi disk for my

Re: [newbie] disk partitions

2001-02-03 Thread Goldenpi
did you change the partition in /etc/fstab? - Original Message - From: Quaylar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, February 02, 2001 3:24 PM Subject: [newbie] disk partitions > hi all... > > short question regarding disk partitions. > as

[newbie] disk partitions

2001-02-02 Thread Quaylar
hi all... short question regarding disk partitions. as my original 500 MB /usr partition was too small i decided to use a 1GB scsi disk for my new /usr. i made a 1:1 copy of my /usr partition using norton ghost, extending the partition on the scsi disk to 1GB. now i mounted the partition on the

[newbie] disk partiton problems......

2001-01-29 Thread Quaylar
hi this is a ..hmm.more general than mandrake-related problem..but maybe someone can help me on this though: i have 2hdd in my P200 server: hda :500 MB : hda1 swap 64 MB hda2 ext2 linux extended 440 MB hda5 ext2 root partition hdb: 500 MB

Re: [newbie] Disk Formatting

2001-01-25 Thread David Thompson
The DOS is easy... c:\format a: where a: is the drive to format. - Original Message - From: "SoloCDM" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Linux-Mandrake Newbie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2001 10:07 AM Subject: [newbie] Disk Formatting >

[newbie] Disk Formatting

2001-01-25 Thread SoloCDM
Prior to now, I used the following to format a disk. Now it doesn't work. What will work? setfdprm /dev/fd0 1440/1440 fdformat /dev/fd0H1440 mkfs /dev/fd0 1440 The above is a Linux format. I also need to know a DOS format command/syntax. Note: When you reply to this message, please include

[newbie] disk usage

2001-01-02 Thread istvan bereti
HI, I installed linux mandrake server version at home. I'm connected to the internet via ADSL modem. I'm not doing anything on the server and I noticed that the hard disk led is sometimes blinking. The sometimes means in every 2 minutes it blinks. I'm just wondering if it's normal or I misconfigu

Re: [newbie] Disk filling up

2000-12-23 Thread Mark Weaver
; > Miark > Registered Linux user #197870 > > > > > - Original Message - > From: "Mark Weaver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2000 2:25 PM > Subject: [newbie] Disk filling up > > > Hi list.

Re: [newbie] Disk filling up

2000-12-22 Thread Miark
riginal Message - From: "Mark Weaver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2000 2:25 PM Subject: [newbie] Disk filling up > Hi list. > > Something strange happened to me today here at work. I had received an > attachment from s

Re: [newbie] Disk filling up

2000-12-22 Thread Mark Weaver
Thanks Alex, but that wasn't it either. But we've got to be getting close. This is very weird! Mark On Friday 22 December 2000 11:10, you wrote: > On Friday 22 December 2000 04:29, you wrote: > > Anthony, > > > > Thank you for responding and I really got gassed by doing what you > > suggested.

Re: [newbie] Disk Free

2000-12-22 Thread civileme
On Friday 22 December 2000 15:47, you wrote: > When I installed 7.2 onto my 10gb HD, I selected the option to use the > entire disk and the automatic option at the partition option, the result of > "df" and "fdisk p" are below (note I mounted /dev/hda3 manually to obtain > the result in fdisk), My

Re: [newbie] Disk filling up

2000-12-22 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
directory will let you find the offending files much > > > quicker. > > > > > > Just my $.02. > > > > > > Chris > > > > > > - Original Message - > > > From: "Anthony" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > To: &

Re: [newbie] Disk filling up

2000-12-22 Thread A V Flinsch
On Friday 22 December 2000 04:29, you wrote: > Anthony, > > Thank you for responding and I really got gassed by doing what you > suggested. That was pretty awesome except it didn't help me find what > the cause of filled disk was. It remains a mystery. And I checked > everything very thoroughly to

Re: [newbie] Disk filling up

2000-12-22 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
the > offending directory will let you find the offending files much quicker. > > Just my $.02. > > Chris > > - Original Message - > From: "Anthony" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday,

Re: [newbie] Disk filling up

2000-12-22 Thread Mark Weaver
y will let you find the offending files much > > quicker. > > > > Just my $.02. > > > > Chris > > > > - Original Message - > > From: "Anthony" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&g

[newbie] Disk Free

2000-12-22 Thread poogle
When I installed 7.2 onto my 10gb HD, I selected the option to use the entire disk and the automatic option at the partition option, the result of "df" and "fdisk p" are below (note I mounted /dev/hda3 manually to obtain the result in fdisk), My question is :- it appears that I have the biggest

Re: [newbie] Disk filling up

2000-12-22 Thread Mark Weaver
Anthony, Thank you for responding and I really got gassed by doing what you suggested. That was pretty awesome except it didn't help me find what the cause of filled disk was. It remains a mystery. And I checked everything very thoroughly too. I seearched down thru the list twice to make sure I d

Re: [newbie] Disk filling up

2000-12-22 Thread Chris Cioffi
uot;Anthony" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, December 21, 2000 11:58 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Disk filling up > I know there is a better command than this, but I can't seem to find it at > the moment. Anyways, type &quo

Re: [newbie] Disk filling up

2000-12-22 Thread Stefaans Mostert
Mark Weaver wrote: > > Hi list. > > Something strange happened to me today here at work. I had received an > attachment from someone. It was an MS Powerpoint file. On a lark I decided to > attempt and open the file with Star Office. I was curious, so sue me! > > Anyway, things didn't go well.

Re: [newbie] Disk filling up

2000-12-21 Thread Anthony
I know there is a better command than this, but I can't seem to find it at the moment. Anyways, type "ls -SalR | more" and it'll list all the files sorted by size in each directory. So you can look and see which files are taking up the most space. It's seperated by directory however, so if you

Re: [newbie] Disk filling up

2000-12-21 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
Look for a file named "core" or one that begins with "core". These are core dumps, left for debugging purposes but are of little use to us. They are most often left in your user directory. They can be safely deleted. On Fri, 22 Dec 2000 08:25, Mark Weaver wrote: > Hi list. > > Something strang

[newbie] Disk filling up

2000-12-21 Thread Mark Weaver
Hi list. Something strange happened to me today here at work. I had received an attachment from someone. It was an MS Powerpoint file. On a lark I decided to attempt and open the file with Star Office. I was curious, so sue me! Anyway, things didn't go well. X crashed and "something" happened

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